Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-04-08

slow oven and bake a half hour or url-
til the fruit is tender. Serve either cold
or hot.
WOMAN AS A FRUITGROWER.
A young lady brought up on farm,
though receiving between the ages of
fifteen and twenty the benefit of a first
class education in distant city, was
suddenly bereft Of both father and
mother. After the settlement of
the, estate she found herself
possessed of farm of thirty
acres, a team of horses and the imple-
ments of farm work, together with the
sum of one hundred and fifty dollars in
cash, with which to begin her fight with
the world. After due elaboration she
decided to retain the farm and work it.
1t SO happened that about two acres had
been Sol to Strawberries sometime
before which would bear its first main
crop the summer following her removal
to the small farm. She Immediately
had this bed cultivated and MANFRED,
doing all but the heavy work with her
own hands. The crop netted her about
one hundred and ten dollars. The next
step was to increase the plantation, add
ing raspberries, blackberries, etc. until
now to make long story short, less
than six years ago from the time the
work was commenced, the original farm
OF ninety acres has been purchased, and
paid for i'll cash, too, and is being rap
pidly laid outin orchards, a poultry yard
OF no mean dimensions adds vastly to
the income, and snug bank account
is ready for rainy day. More than all
she has developed from a dependent
girl, into strong, healthy, self-reliant
business woman; and the secret or sue
cess is good sense, lack of that bane
to American girls false pride, and in
domitable will. and determination to
succeed.-Fd71n and Household.
ROSE BEDS.
If you intend making bed for roses,
make it in the fall, dig it deep, manure
it we'll, thoroughly incorporating the .
manure with the soil; you can scarcely
make it too rich for roses. Let it SO
remain until spring, then just as early
as the ground will work, dig it over,
and mix more rotten manure with the
soil, level the surface, and yonr bed is
ready for your plants, which purchase
from any reliable florist or exchange
with friends. In selecting plants of
roses. look more to plants having an
abundance of roots, than to the size of
the tops, always bearing in mind that
a rose plant without good supply of
roots, be the top ever so large, is not of
much account, and will not give much
satisfaction, while plant with good
roots and even but a small top, will
soon start into growth and form a top
in size according to the supply of roots.
Set your plants about fifteen inches each
way, firm the roots well in the ground,
give good soaking of water, and they
will soon start into growth and give
pleasure.-Fa7na and Garden.
REL1sHABLE DINNER DISH.
One of the cheapest dinner dishes is
made out of two pounds of fresh beef
from the lower part of the round. The
meat is first cut in pieces about an inch
square, then put into stewpan with
dozen fairsized potatoes peeled and cut
in two. Both are sprinkled with salt,
and completely covered with boiling
water. After stewing until the potatoes
are tender the latter are removed, put
into the oven to brown and the meat
left cooking. When both are done
the potatoes are placed on the
the platter and the meat and gravy
poured over them. This dish is some
what like Irish stew, but lacks the onion
flavor. The potatoes have the same
crispness as if fried.
VARIOUS NOTES.
Valuable coloring matter has been
developed from the root of the cotton
plant.
It is singular fact that the gait of
a horse may be influenced by the
manner Of shoeing. A PAGER may be
turned into q trotter by increasing the
weight upon the fore-feet.
The Apache Indians near Mohawk,
A. T., are said to be excellent farm
laborers, They work for one dollar
per day and board themselves, and also
contract to clear land by the scre.
The man who puts up a barbed-wire
fence in Nebraska Is responsible for
any damages sustained by man or ami
mails coming in contact with it.
The refrigeration of food products
has made it possible to preserve dressed
poultry from one years end TO an
other.
The extreme West bids fair at no
distant time to vie with the Eastern
countries in the productions of pet
roleum.
& A good way to kill out sorrel is to
salt sheep on it. Care should be- taken
never toEallow the sorrel to seeds as it
can be carried to other points in the
III anure.
A good many Minnesota farms are
favored with lakes. and it may be of in
4aract IN enoU that fnw vaars auo q